Hello all, im new to the site so I just thought I would quickly introduce myself.
Im Sabastian, an aspiring screenwriter.
I look forward to getting to know everyone and hopefully improve my writing.
I would love to start reading some scripts so if you have any don't hesitate to send them to me.

Welcome chernochan! Nice to meet you.

Sandra

Welcome to the boards, chernochan.

Have fun.

Welcome.


Phil

Welcome.

Welcome...to the real world.

Quoted from banditfive Your wasting your time. Triggerstreet is where the serious writers go.

Which maybe explains why you're here...?

Quoted from sniper Which maybe explains why you're here...?

Sniper, I've got a love/hate relationship with you. And this is the love part.

Sandra

Is Triggerstreet a site like this? Which one is bigger?

Quoted from Tommyp Is Triggerstreet a site like this? Which one is bigger?

I don't know a whiff of Triggerstreet, but in my opinion, it's not "the site" that's going to do you any good. It's what you "bring to" the site that will do you and others good.

If you're looking for some quick road to success, even if you were to find it, you probably wouldn't be satisfied.

Real success only comes after a "Helluva" (did I spell that right) lot of experiences that help us to discern our reality.

Comments like "This site rocks" or "This site sucks" are truly: stupid, but they are also meaningful because they point us in the direction of how many of our thought processes work.

I like to think of some common slang (that's not quite the right term) that crept up about four years ago and was new to me: "It's all good".

I love it because that's the way I feel in my heart even when everything is pulsating otherwise.

Thanks again everyone who contributes here and puts up with my digressions.

Sandra

Quoted from banditfive Your wasting your time. Triggerstreet is where the serious writers go.

There are serious writers here, chernochan.

Bandit up there gets his feelings hurt when people respond negatively to (or ignore) his comments, which often lean towards the dickish end of the spectrum.  His "second chance" is just about used up, and most here on the boards are done with him.

Or if they weren't before, they are now.

There are also serious writers on Triggerstreet, which is good for what it is.  There you MUST read to be read -- not necessarily a bad thing, really -- but you are assigned scripts to comment on as opposed to choosing on your own.

I was on there for a little while, but did not really enjoy their system.  And what I read there was not any better than the upper 50% of the stuff here.  I think we might have a little more dreck, but Don's "open door" policy also serves a purpose for those who are serious about improving.

So yeah -- welcome to the boards.

What bugged me the most about Triggerstreet is also the best part about them. On the one hand, the read for a read thing is good. Your script gets put into this rotation provided that you have enough read credits to be put out there. You have to read two scripts to post and then you're up. Once you're up, and people read your script, their reads also take your read credits, so in order to keep your script in the rotation, you have to keep reading. The best I could ever do was keep one script up for maybe a month before it got lost in the shuffle since more than one person might read it at the same time, meaning to put it back in the rotation and get credit for the three reads you just got, you have to read three more scripts to break even and then read at least one more to get back in the rotation. It takes some serious dedication to remain a part of that site as an active member. Personally, I have too much going on outside of here to deal with it. I might still have an account, but as I was on the lamb for close to a year even here, it might be gone.

Now, if you do happen to have the level of commitment it requires and you make nice with the bigger wigged people there, and your script is good, you might move into their top ten area and even have a chance at the monthly (I think it's monthly -- it's been awhile) prize. But here's the catch there. The really committed ones don't like people invading their turf and they can very easily "torpedo" your script (that's what they call it) by delivering a scathing review when it starts breaking the film of the top ten. That's why not only reading is important, but also making nice with the upper echelon.

It amounts to more of a pain in the butt than anything else. It would be like the top  10 or 20 posters here giving a bad review to your script because we think it makes us look better, but the difference there is that the reviews are fairly anonymous to everyone except the script owner.

Here, we have nothing to gain or lose from good or bad reviews, so they tend to be more honest.